JournalsRussell Farnen, Political Science
and Hartford Campus, has been named assistant editor for
political science of the International Psychology Reporter, a
publication of the American Psychological Association.

PresentationsChristopher Kochiss, William Allen
and Nicole Bakes, Geology &
Geophysics, undergraduate students, presented "Orientation
Statistics and Hydrogeologic
Significance of Fractures in the Glastonbury Gneiss, Connecticut,"
at the annual meeting of the northeastern section of the Geological Society of America in New
Brunswick, N.J., March 13-15.

Nechama Tec, Sociology and
Stamford Campus, presented a paper on Jewish resistance
to Nazi oppression during the Holocaust and its implication for women
during a symposium in honor of Women's History Month at the
Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, March 9.

Anthony Philpotts, Geology &
Geophysics, and Besim Dragovic, undergraduate
student, presented "Use of Neutrally Buoyant Plagioclase Phenocrysts as
Passive Markers to Measure Compaction in Basaltic Crystal
Mush," at the annual meeting of the northeastern section
of the Geological Society of America in
New Brunswick, N.J., March 13-15. He also presented, with
Loretta Dickson, undergraduate
student, "Textural Difference Between the Roof and Floor of a
Simple Basaltic Magma Chamber;" and "A Model for Convective
Transfer of Crystal Mush from the Upper Solidification Zone to the
Floor of a Thick Sheet of
Basaltic Magma."

Randolph Steinen, Geology &
Geophysics, and Byron Stone presented "Origin of Jordan Ridge
Esker Eastern Connecticut: Deep Excavation Reveals New
Insights," at the annual meeting of the northeastern section of the
Geological Society of America in New Brunswick, N.J., March 13-15.

Gail Williams, Allied Health, presented
a poster, "The Development of a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate
Program in Molecular Diagnostics," at the Association
for Molecular Pathology international meeting in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 4-7.

Other ActivitiesCarole Eller and Umekia
Taylor, Cooperative Extension, have been appointed
to the child editorial board of CYFERNet. The boards serve as national peer
review panels for health, child, youth, family, and community
resources for electronic publication on the CYFERNet web site.

Clinton Morse, Ecology &
Evolutionary Biology, was highlighted in the Summer 1999
issue of the American Association of Botanic Gardens and Arboreta
magazine 'The Public Garden' in an article detailing the
diverse teaching collections at UConn. The article was
subsequently reprinted in the Winter 2000
newsletter of the Association of Educational and Research
Greenhouse Curators.

The School of Social Work hosted
Ludmilla Haroutunian, a leading demographer in the former Soviet
Union and director of the Department of
Sociology, Social Work and Conflictology at Yerevan State
University, Republic of Armenia, Feb. 14-18.

Joseph Smey, Allied Health,
was elected in December to a three-year term as a
corporator of Windham Community Memorial Hospital. Corporators are legal
members of the hospital who reside or work in the hospital's
service area and represent and support the activities of the hospital.